In this study, a model on the processing of noun-noun conceptual combination was proposed and an experiment was conducted to verify it. The model suggests that thematic-relation interpretation can be facilitated when there are any salient external properties in the head and the modifier is relevant to one of them. On the other hand, property-mapping interpretation can be facilitated when there are any salient internal properties in the modifier and the head has any relevant slot (dimension) to one of them. The experiment examined whether external/internal properties in the heads/modifiers and relevance between modifier and head can facilitate property or relation interpretation by measuring interpretation times and degrees of interpretation convergency. The results showed that the interpretation time is faster and the interpretation convergency is higher when there are external or internal properties and their relevant slots as well.

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The effects of two important lexical variables, word frequency and word length, are investigated for Korean word recognition. The processing of Korean words did not show similar effects as one of many other orthographies. First, a subtype of Korean orthography showed no word frequency effects. Second, one syllable words are processed more slowly than two syllable words. The possible confounding variable, the effect of morphemes, was suggested.

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